re: Chelsea 2012/2013 Season Long Thread(Posted by Bho on 12/31/12 at 7:41 am to KneffLSU)

Well that was short lived. Sky Sports is reporting talks with Chelsea and Ba's people was unsuccessful. Some of the rumors say it was his wages, which I can't see. Others say he was told that he'd be second choice striker behind Torres and wasn't promised time. Roman has just decided that ditching Torres is a failure and he will not admit failure. That's a bad road to be headed down.

re: Chelsea 2012/2013 Season Long Thread(Posted by Harry Caray on 12/31/12 at 8:46 am to Bho)

quote:Well that was short lived. Sky Sports is reporting talks with Chelsea and Ba's people was unsuccessful. Some of the rumors say it was his wages, which I can't see. Others say he was told that he'd be second choice striker behind Torres and wasn't promised time. Roman has just decided that ditching Torres is a failure and he will not admit failure. That's a bad road to be headed down.

re: Chelsea 2012/2013 Season Long Thread(Posted by Bho on 12/31/12 at 11:52 am to RandySavage)

quote:Well who is next then?

Who knows. There are so many ridiculous names that are linked to Chelsea in every transfer window.

quote:We have to have another option up top to give Torres a rest or in case he gets hurt.

No kidding, but we aren't going to get anyone of quality when we continue to run out a striker that struggles. I like Torres, I want him to do well, and he has been better since Rafa took over. The problem is he is still a shell of himself and it's painfully obvious that he will never be close to that again. Ba made so much sense. In fact, it made so much sense that it doesn't surprise me that it's not going to happen.

re: Chelsea 2012/2013 Season Long Thread(Posted by RandySavage on 12/31/12 at 12:02 pm to Bho)

quote:No kidding, but we aren't going to get anyone of quality when we continue to run out a striker that struggles. I like Torres, I want him to do well, and he has been better since Rafa took over. The problem is he is still a shell of himself and it's painfully obvious that he will never be close to that again. Ba made so much sense. In fact, it made so much sense that it doesn't surprise me that it's not going to happen.

Hard to know exactly what's going on/being said behind the scenes but right now we have no choice but to keep running him out there because we don't have anyone else.